by comparative study of enzymatic and chemical denaturation of wheat gluten and their cellulosic...
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Comparative study of enzymatic and chemical denaturation of wheat gluten and their cellulosic nanocomposites
By
Nahla A. El-WakilCellulose & Paper Dept.
National Research CenterCairo, Egypt
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Protein-Based nanocomposites for Food PackagingAcademy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt & Campus France
International Project (Imhotep) (2013/2015)
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ObjectiveThe purpose is to examine the role of nanocellulose (CNC and MFC) as a reinforcing agent on the chemically and enzymatically denatured wheat gluten films.
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Introduction
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Cellulose
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Nanocellulose
TEM of nanofibers isolated from rice straw (a) and bagasse (b) (Hassan et al., 2010 & 2012)
Microfibrillated cellulose
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Cellulose nanocrystals
The nanostructure of (a) bagasse and rice straw (b) (Hassan et al., 2009)
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Wheat gluten
The structure of wheat gluten
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Denaturation of protein
Enzymatic denaturati
on
Chemical denaturati
on
Heat denaturati
on
Chemical denaturation of wheat gluten
Development of wheat gluten/nanocellulose/titanium dioxidenanocomposites for active food packaging. Nahla A. El-Wakil, Enas A. Hassan, Ragab E. Abou-Zeid, Alain Dufresne. Carbohydrate Polymers 124(2015) 337–346.
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Charcterization Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) Water sensitivity Contact angle Water vapor uptake (WVU) Water vapor permeability (WVP) Mechanical testing
Tensile strength and Young’s modulus Antimicrobial activity
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SEM micrographs of surfaces and cross sections of neat WG (a and b), WG/CNC 7.5% (c and d), WG/CNC 12.5% (e and f) and WG/CNC 7.5%/0.6%TiO2(g and h).
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
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Contact angle of WG, WG / CNC and WG/CNC/ TiO2
WG/CNC WG/CNC 7.5%/TiO2
Sample Contact angle Sample Contact angle
WG 45.10 ± 1.18 WG/CNC 7.5% 64.04 ± 2.842.5% CNC 58.88 ± 0.74 0.2% TiO2 67.10 ± 0.11
5% CNC 62.00 ± 0.38 0.4% TiO2 68.86 ± 0.41
7.5% CNC 64.04 ± 2.84 0.6%TiO2 74.63 ± 0.66
10% CNC 75.19 ± 0.25 0.8% TiO2 85.6 ± 2.31
12.5% CNC 78.48 ± 1.18 1.0% TiO2 89.70 ± 0.14
Contact angle
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Dependence of WVU on CNC content (a) and TiO2 content (b).
Water vapor uptake test (WVU)
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Dependence of WVP on CNC content (a) and TiO2 content (b).
Water vapor permeability (WVP)
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Typical stress-strain curves obtained from tensile tests for neat WG and WG filled with CNC (a) and WG with 7.5% CNC filled with TiO2 (b).
Mechanical testing
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The colony-forming units (CFU/ml) and the reduction % of surviving number of the tested bacteria of the coated paper with and without TiO2 nanoparticles
S. aureus
E. coli
Time of UVA light exposure (h)
1/2 1
2 1/2
1
2
Sample
CFU/ml R (%)
CFU/ml
R (%)
CFU/ml R (%) CFU/ml R (%) CFU/ml R (%) CFU/ml
R (%)
Blank 2.4×105
- 3.7×105
- 3.1×105
- 3.2×1
05
- 6.0×105
- 6.6×105
-
I layer
1.0×105
58.3 8.0×104
78.4
0 100 2.5×105
21.9 2.9×105
51.7 1.0×105
84.9
II layers
3.7×104
84.6
1.0×104
97.3
0 100 1.9×105
40.6 1.0×105
83.8 3.0×104
95.5
III layers
2.9×104
87.9
3.0×103
98.2
0 100 1.5×105
53.1 6.0×104
90.0 1.0×104
98.5
Antimicrobial activity
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Enzymatic denaturation of wheat gluten (EWG)
Effect of time on solubility of wheat gluten obtained with different percent of Alcalase enzyme
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0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
MFC
Tensi
le S
trength
(M
Pa)
Mechanical testing
Tensile strength of WG/MFC and EWG/MFC films
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Water vapor permeability (WVP)
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 350.00E+00
5.00E-10
1.00E-09
1.50E-09
2.00E-09
2.50E-09
3.00E-09
Enzymaticaly
Chemically
MFC %
WV
P
WVP of WG/MFC and EWG/MFC films
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WG/MFCSample Contact angle5 % MFC
10 % MFC
15 % MFC
20 % MFC
25 % MFC
30 % MFC
30.85
34.77
38.22
39.33
40.5
38.4
Contact angle measurment
Contact angle of EWG/MFC films
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SEM micrographs of EWG/20% MFC (a and b) and EWG/30% MFC (c and d) surface and cross section.
Scanning electrone microscopy
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Conclusion Filling of chemically and enzymatically denatured wheat gluten with MFC enhanced the mechanical and barrier properties of the prepared nanocomposites. However, this enhancement is significant in case of chemical denaturation specially for MFC content > 15%.
Attempts to develop thermoplastic films from wheat gluten to replace synthetic polymer based films need more extensive studies to achieve the target
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Acknowledgement
I would to acknowledge my colleagues:Dr. Enas A. Hassan assistant prof. and Dr. Ragab Abou-Zeid Researcher.The authors acknowledge the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt (National Research Center) & Scientific sector of the French institute of Egypt (Grenoble Institute of Technology, Pagora, Grenoble , France) for their financial support.
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